Pros
Because it is owned by a France’s state-owned national railway, the company is not like typical short-term focused American company that lives and dies by the stock price. Excellent global focus on diversity, especially women, and going green. (The CEO is a woman.) Nice variety of business in the US, although there are many overlaps which creates internal competition.
Cons
Very un-inspiring strategy that does not flow down into the ranks. Even with good support globally for diversity, in the US leadership, there is a clear lack of diversity. With the economy downturn, the company is very top heavy and has too many people in positions that add little to no value. Layoffs end up taking out value-adding workers but leaves 100’s of positions that do not support the operations or customers.